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This entire article is about theory with no demonstrated path or evidence to success/usefulness. I was exposed to Neural Net promises over 20 years ago. Show us some results, or at least declare there is nothing to report.--2600:6C48:7006:200:5C10:C716:750B:C3B2 (talk) 00:25, 17 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

The definition of ML being to "generalize to unseen data" is incorrect, as it is slightly too narrow.

Machine Learning can be used to learn, example, how to play checkers without having to memoryze all possible checker states. An «easy» checkers agent could rely merely on a list of all possible game states and a corresponding recommended action. A ML algorithm could learn to condense those «all possible game states» into a concise set of rules.

Another example, clustering algorithms can be used merely for the purpose of clustering and without any intent of being applicable to "unseen data". The training of the clustering algorithm is still called "machine learning" and the clustering algorithms themselves are also still called "machine learning algorithms". 109.49.139.107 (talk) 17:15, 17 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

The list of books under "Further Reading" seems to be rather out of date. Here are my thoughts for those who are regularly working on this wiki (as my own book is on the list of suggested additions, I will not edit the wiki myself due to Wikipedia:COIEDIT):

Issues with existing items:

2) Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman: Link works, but it would be better to use the digital object identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84858-7

4) Witten, Frank: Link should be added: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123748560

5) Alpaydin: There is a newer version (4th edition from 2020), Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043793/introduction-to-machine-learning/

8) Bishop: There’s another very popular book by him that should be mentioned as well: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, 2006, https://link.springer.com/book/9780387310732

9) Russel, Norvig: There's a newer version (4th edition from 2021), Link: https://elibrary.pearson.de/book/99.150005/9781292401171

10 and 11) There's a whole wiki on this: Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference which should be referenced here. 10 and 11 could be combined into one bullet point.

Suggested additions (including very recent books from the 2020s and two from the 2010s that have become "classics" by now):

• Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David: Understanding Machine Learning. From Theory to Algorithms. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014, Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107298019

• Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman: Mining of Massive Datasets, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014, Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924801

• Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, Cheng Soon Ong: Mathematics for Machine Learning, Cambridge University Press, 2020, Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108679930

• Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan: Foundations of Data Science, Cambridge University Press, 2020, Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108755528

• Chirag Shah: A hands-on introduction to Data Science, Cambridge University Press, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560412

• Matthias Plaue: Data Science, Springer, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67882-4

• Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jonathan Taylor: An Introduction to Statistical Learning, Springer, 2023, Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38747-0

• Sven A. Wegner: Mathematical Introduction to Data Science, Springer, 2024, Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69426-8

Notice that several books have "Data Science”, "Statistical Learning" or "Data Mining" in the title and nevertheless cover many of the topics in this wiki. Notice further, that the list above is by no means exhaustive, and is biased towards books that in particular cover the mathematical details. Also, I have limited myself to introductory books that actually cover a wider range of machine learning topics, and have not included books that focus on one specific topic only. 134.100.221.31 (talk) 18:41, 7 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for proposing on the talk page instead of making the edit yourself again.

I have made the suggested changes to the existing section.

I've also alphabetized. Chronological order would also work. I've also removed some publisher shopping links, as these are frustrating to readers who reasonably expect that a link will take them to the work itself instead of to a place to buy that work at full price. Template:ISBN already provides this functionality for those who want it.

To be most useful to readers, it helps to focus on works which are specific to this topic, not to broader topics like data science, etc. To put it another way, the larger the 'further reading' section the less likely it is that anyone will actually read any individual entry. For that reason, it appears that most of these would be a better fit for a data science 'further reading' section, instead. Grayfell (talk) 20:26, 7 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Would you then put those references on the data science page? - I just checked and there's no 'further reading' section at all. 2A02:3100:83FC:4000:3423:F3B7:81A6:C746 (talk) 07:12, 12 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 22 January 2025 and 30 April 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Nz25 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Nz25 (talk) 03:36, 20 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thise articles was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-Supported course assignment,between 22 ~2026-40794-26 (talk) 14:02, 21 July 2026 (UTC)Reply